A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.